The Heath Anthology of American Literature

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1 The Heath Anthology of American Literature FIFTH EDITION Volume D Modern Period: Paul Lauter Trinity College General Editor Jackson R. Bryer University of Maryland King-Kok Cheung University of California, Los Angeles Anne Goodwyn Jones University of Missouri Wendy Martin Claremont Graduate University Quentin Miller Suffolk University John Alberti Northern Kentucky University Editor, Instructor's Guide James Kyung-Jin Lee University of California, Santa Barbara Associate Editor Richard Yarborough University of California, Los Angeles Associate General Editor Charles Molesworth Queens College, City University of New York Raymund Paredes University of Texas, San Antonio Ivy T. Schweitzer Dartmouth College Andrew O. Wiget New Mexico State University Sandra A. Zagarell Oberlin College Lois Leveen Electronic Resources Editor Mary Pat Brady Cornell University Associate Editor "Houghton Mifflin Company Boston New York

2 CONTENTS XVll Preface MODERN PERIOD, The Centers of the Modern 851 Modernism and the Self 856 Modernism and the New Negro Renaissance 862 Modernism and the South 862 Modernism, Popular Culture, and the Media 867 Toward the Modern Age 868 Booker T. Washington ( ) 870 from Up from Slavery 870 Chapter I, A Slave Among Slaves 875 Chapter III, The Struggle for an Education 883 Chapter VI, Black Race and Red Race 885 Chapter XIII, Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech 887 Chapter XIV, The Atlanta Exposition Address 894 W.E.B. Du Bois ( ) 897 from The Souls of Black Folk 897 Chapter I, Of Our Spiritual Strivings 902 Chapter III, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others 911 Chapter XIV, Of the Sorrow Songs 917 The Song of the Smoke 919 James Weldon Johnson ( ) 920 Lift Every Voice and Sing 921 O Black and Unknown Bards 923 from Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 923 Chapter X 939 The Creation 941 Edwin Arlington Robinson ( ) 942 The Clerks 943 Aunt Imogen

3 VI Contents Momus Eros Turannos The Tree in Pamela's Garden Mr. Flood's Party Ellen Glasgow ( ) The Professional Instinct Edith Wharton ( ) The Valley of Childish Things Souls Belated The Other Two The Life Apart {Lame close) The Eyes Roman Fever Edgar Lee Masters ( ) from Spoon River Anthology Petit, the Poet Seth Compton Lucinda Matlock The Village Atheist from The New Spoon River Cleanthus Trilling from Lichee Nuts Ascetics and Drunkards Great Audiences and Great Poets from The Harmony of Deeper Music Not to See Sandridge Again WillaCather ( ) A Wagner Matinee Susan Glaspell ( ) Trifles Robinson Jeffers ( ) Credo Rock and Hawk The Purse-Seine Self-Criticism in February The Bloody Sire The Excesses of God Cassandra The Beauty of Things Carmel Point

4 Contents vii Robert Frost ( ) The Pasture Mending Wall The Road Not Taken An Old Man's Winter Night The Oven Bird Out, Out The Line-Gang The Ax-Helve Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Desert Places Once by the Pacific Design Provide, Provide Directive Sherwood Anderson ( ) Hands Death in the Woods Theodore Dreiser ( ) The Second Choice Edna St. Vincent Millay ( ) Spring The Spring and the Fall [Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare] Dirge Without Music [Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink] The Return [Here lies, and none to mourn him but the sea] [His stalk the dark delphinium] Sonnet xli Sonnet xcv Justice Denied in Massachusetts Alienation and Literary Experimentation Ezra Pound ( ) A Virginal A Pact In a Station of the Metro L'art, 1910 A Retrospect

5 vill Contents from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts) E.P. Ode pour L'electionde Son Sepulchre Yeux Glauques Siena mi fe'; Disfecemi Maremma Brennbaum Mr. Nixon Envoi (1919) The Cantos I [And then went down to the ship] XIII [Kung walked] XLV [With usura hath no man a house of good stone] LXXXI [Yet/Ere the season died a-cold] CXX [I have tried to write Paradise] Amy Lowell ( ) A Lady Patterns The Letter Summer Rain Venus Transiens Madonna of the Evening Flowers Opal Wakefulness Grotesque The Sisters Gertrude Stein ( ) from The Making of Americans Susie Asado Preciosilla Ladies' Voices from Composition as Explanation from The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind from The Mother of Us All William Carlos Williams ( ) Danse Russe The Young Housewife Portrait of a Lady Spring and All The Pot of Flowers The Rose To Elsie Young Sycamore The Flower

6 Contents ix The Poor Burning the Christmas Greens The Descent The Pink Locust Eugene O'Neill ( ) The Hairy Ape Djuna Barnes ( ) Smoke Elizabeth Madox Roberts ( ) Death at Bearwallow H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) ( ) Sea Rose The Helmsman Oread Helen from Trilogy from The Walls Do Not Fall [43] from Tribute to the Angels [8,12,19,20,23,43] 1235 Cluster: Political Poetry in the Modern Period 1237 Joseph Kalar ( ) 1237 Papermill 1237 Kenneth Fearing ( ) Alfred Hayes ( ) 1239 In a Coffee Pot 1241 Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1913) 1241 I Want You Women Up North to Know 1244 Kay Bdyle ( ) 1244 A Communication to Nancy Cunard 1248 Langstdn Hughes ( ) 1248 Goodbye Christ 1249 Air Raid over Harlem 1254 Lola Ridge ( ) 1254 Stone Face 1255 Edwin Rolfe ( ) 1255 Asbestos 1256 Season of Death

7 X Contents First Love Elegia Genevieve Taggard ( ) Up State Depression Summer To the Negro People Ode in Time of Crisis To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade E. E. Cummings ( ) [Buffalo Bill's] [into the strenuous briefness] [the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls] [i like my body when it is with your] [my sweet old etcetera] [since feeling is first] [i sing of Olaf glad and big] [Picasso] [anyone lived in a pretty how town] [plato told] [what if a much of a which of a wind] [pity this busy monster, manunkind] T. S. Eliot ( ) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Preludes Tradition and the Individual Talent The Waste Land The Dry Salvages 1313 Cluster: Modernism, Lyric Poetry, Facts 1314 William Carlos Williams ( ) 1314 The Red Wheelbarrow 1315 The Great Figure 1315 Kenneth Fearing ( ) 1315 Dirge 1316 Langston Hughes ( ) 1316 Johannesburg Mines 1317 The English 1317 Marianne Moore ( ) 1317 Poetry

8 Contents xi 1319 Wallace Stevens ( ) 1319 The Course of a Particular 1319 Charles Reznikoff ( ) 1319 After Rain 1319 [Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies] 1320 Children 1322 Gary Snyder (b. 1930) 1322 Oil 1323 Facts 1324 F.Scott Fitzgerald ( ) 1326 May Day 1360 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz 1387 Katherine Anne Porter ( ) 1388 The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 1395 Flowering Judas 1403 Marianne Moore ( ) 1404 England 1406 To a Chameleon 1406 An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish 1407 The Pangolin 1410 What Are Years? 1411 Nevertheless 1412 The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing 1413 Louise Bogan ( ) 1414 Women 1415 The Sleeping Fury 1416 Roman Fountain 1417 After the Persian 1418 The Dragonfly 1419 Night 1420 Ernest Hemingway ( ) 1422 Hills Like White Elephants 1426 Wallace Stevens ( ) 1427 Sunday Morning 1430 The Snow Man 1431 Peter Quince at the Clavier 1433 Anecdote of the Jar 1434 A High-Toned Old Christian Woman

9 xii Contents Of Modern Poetry Of Mere Being William Faulkner ( ) A Courtship Delta Autumn Barn Burning Hart Crane ( ) Black Tambourine Chaplinesque At Melville's Tomb from The Bridge To Brooklyn Bridge The River The Broken Tower 1487 The New Negro Renaissance Alain Locke ( ) The New Negro Jean Toomer ( ) from Cane Karintha Song of the Son Blood-Burning Moon Seventh Street Box Seat Langston Hughes ( ) The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Weary Blues Drum The Same Negro Bad Luck Card I, Too Dream Variations Harlem Freedom Train Big Meeting The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain When the Negro Was in Vogue Radioactive Red Caps Thank You, M'am

10 Contents xiii Countee Cullen ( ) Incident From the Dark Tower Simon the Cyrenian Speaks Yet Do I Marvel Pagan Prayer Heritage Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song Gwendolyn B. Bennett ( ) Heritage To Usward Advice Lines Written at the Grave of Alexandre Dumas Sterling A. Brown ( ) When de Saints Go Ma'ching Home Strong Men Ma Rainey Slim in Hell Remembering Nat Turner Song of Triumph Zora tieale Hurston ( ) Sweat The Gilded Six-Bits Claude McKay ( ) The Harlem Dancer If We Must Die The Lynching Harlem Shadows I Shall Return America In Bondage Flame-Heart Flower of Love A Red Flower Anne Spencer ( ) Lines to a Nasturtium Substitution For Jim, Easter Eve NellaLarsen ( ) from Passing One Two

11 xiv Contents 1618 George Samuel Schuyler ( ) 1620 Our Greatest Gift to America 1624 The Negro-Art Hokum 1627 Blues Lyrics 1627 Blues Lyrics 1634 Issues and Visions in Modern America 1635 Randolph Bourne ( ) 1637 Trans-National America 1648 Anzia Yezierska (1881P-1970) 1650 America and I 1657 Michael Gold ( ) 1658 from Jews Without Money 1658 The Soul of a Landlord 1666 H. L. Mencken ( ) 1668 The Sahara of the Bozarts 1675 John Dos Passos ( ) 1676 from U.S.A The Body of an American 1680 The Bitter Drink 1687 Albert Maltz ( ) 1689 The Happiest Man on Earth 1696 Lillian Hellman ( ) 1697 from Scoundrel Time 1700 Mary McCarthy ( ) 1702 from Memories of a Catholic Girlhood 1702 Names Clifford Odets ( ) 1709 Waiting for Lefty 1726 Meridel LeSueur ( ) 1728 Women on the Breadlines 1733 Mourning Dove (Okanogan) ( ) 1734 from Coyote Stories 1734 Preface 1736 The Spirit Chief Names the Animal People 1740 John Joseph Mathews (Osage) ( ) 1741 from Sundown 1741 I 1747 II

12 Contents xv 1752 Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa) ( ) 1752 Blue Winds Dancing 1757 D'Arcy McNickle ( ) 1759 Hard Riding 1764 Robert Penn Warren ( ) 1766 Founding Fathers, Early-Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast U.S.A Infant Boy at Midcentury 1769 The Leaf 1771 Evening Hawk 1772 Heart of Autumn 1773 Amazing Grace in the Back Country 1775 Fear and Trembling 1776 John Crowe Ransom ( ) 1777 Here Lies a Lady 1778 Philomela 1779 Piazza Piece 1779 The Equilibrists 1781 Allen Tate ( ) 1782 Ode to the Confederate Dead 1784 Charles Reznikoff ( ) 1785 [How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted] 1786 Aphrodite Vrania 1786 [The shoemaker sat in the cellars dusk beside his bench] 1787 Hellenist 1787 [In steel clouds] 1787 [About an excavation] 1788 The English in Virginia, April from Testimony 1789 I 1790 II 1791 John Steinbeck ( ) 1792 The Chrysanthemums 1800 from The Grapes of Wrath 1800 Chapter One 1802 Chapter Five 1807 Richard Wright ( ) 1809 Bright and Morning Star 1833 Between the World and Me 1835 Margaret Walker ( ) 1836 from Jubilee

13 xvi Contents Cook in the Big House 8. Randall Ware Southern Song For My People Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad Solace The Crystal Palace Saunders Redding ( ) from No Day of Triumph Chapter One, Troubled in Mind Pietro Di Donato ( ) Christ in Concrete 1866 Younghill Kang ( ) 1867 from East Goes West 1867 Part One, Book Three 1873 Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants 1875 from The Voyage [Four days before the Qiqiao Festival] [Instead bf remaining a citizen of China, I willingly became an ox] 1876 from The Detainment [Imprisonment at Youli, when will it end?] [After leaping into prison, I cannot come out] [There are tens of thousands of poems composed on these walls] 1878 from The Weak Shall Conquer [Leaving behind my writing brush and removing my sword, I came] [Being idle in the wooden building, I opened a window] [The dragon out of water is humiliated by ants] 1879 from About Westerners [I hastened here for the sake of my stomach and landed promptly] [Shocking news, truly sad, reached my ears] 1879 from Deportees, Transients [On a long voyage I travelled across the sea] Crude Poem Inspired by the Landscape [Detained in this wooden house for several tens of days] A-l Acknowledgments 1-1 Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines